Pete The Badge - 77th Birthday Pictures / video pages 19 / 20

paulchapo said:
Some people are. I grew up in Benchill there,my mum and dad still live in the same house, they bought it off the council years ago. If you are lucky enough to live in a close knit community it can be great. Everywhere was like that when I was a kid growing up in Hulme, everyone left their front doors open and helped one another. Then they pulled the houses down, moved everyone all over the place and stuck the rest in those horrible tower blocks.

On the subject of us being rubbish this just popped up, happy days lol.

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I'd given a lift to 2 Oldham fans from my street to that game, they didn't get one back.

Sas fuckers hardly ever spoke to me the next 5 years until we moved house.
 
paulchapo said:
Our keeper and defence in that game were non existent lol.

Last season in the 2-2 against Liverpool I nipped to the toilet just before the second half started. I came back and said, "We just need to keep it tight the first 15 minutes." The bloke next to me said, "It's 2-2." I was gobsmacked. I'm in the south stand and hadn't even heard the scousers cheer the goal.
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Even that 4 nil defeat at Blackburn (sadly the day of Hillsborough) we just took on the chin. Apart from Moulden hitting the bar, the only excitement was some bright bright spark pulling up the floorboards on the special back to town.
 
paulchapo said:
Some people are. I grew up in Benchill there,my mum and dad still live in the same house, they bought it off the council years ago. If you are lucky enough to live in a close knit community it can be great. Everywhere was like that when I was a kid growing up in Hulme, everyone left their front doors open and helped one another. Then they pulled the houses down, moved everyone all over the place and stuck the rest in those horrible tower blocks.

On the subject of us being rubbish this just popped up, happy days lol.

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Remember that game well. It was the first home match of the season in a year we were expected to get promoted. We did, but in typical City fashion it started with a defeat to Hull?? and a tonking at home, with an ex-blue getting a hatrick.
 
When he was on the screen a bloke behind my new seat said "who the fuck is he?"

I just looked at him shaking my head.

Then another asked me what City were singing to the Joy Division tune.

shook head again.

It's not like 109 that's for sure
 
mancityvstoke said:
When he was on the screen a bloke behind my new seat said "who the fuck is he?"

I just looked at him shaking my head.

Then another asked me what City were singing to the Joy Division tune.

shook head again.

It's not like 109 that's for sure
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To be fair, unless you're on Bluemoon or in the SS, you would have no idea who Pete was. It's only the last couple of years that I found out about him, and I've been going on/off for over 40 years.

Joy Division though, that sounds like it was his first match at the Etihad. When watching on telly you don't hear the refrain that we are 'tearing cockneys apart again'. It's great that the DJ plays it though !
 
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Northerndave said:
To be fair, unless you're on Bluemoon or in the SS, you would have no idea who Pete was. It's only the last couple of years that I found out about him, and I've been going on/off for over 40 years.

Joy Division though, that sounds like it was hisw first match at the Etihad. When watching on telly you don't hear the refrain that we are 'taking cockneys apart again'. It's great that the DJ plays it though !
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I first met him in the eighties. I was living in Kent so I joined the London supporters club as we got cheaper group travel train tickets to get to Maine Road. Pete was a member and I had a few chats with him back then. Bizarely I don't ever remember seeing him at Maine Road prior to that, unless he didn't wear all that gear when I was going as a kid.

I think he's becoming more well known with social media as he's pictured online quite a lot. One thing I've found odd is how such a quiet shy unassuming man decided to dress in such a noticeable extrovert fashion. It's baffling and totally at odds with his personality lol.
 
Northerndave said:
To be fair, unless you're on Bluemoon or in the SS, you would have no idea who Pete was. It's only the last couple of years that I found out about him, and I've been going on/off for over 40 years.

Joy Division though, that sounds like it was his first match at the Etihad. When watching on telly you don't hear the refrain that we are 'taking cockneys apart again'. It's great that the DJ plays it though !
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Tearing
 
Northerndave said:
To be fair, unless you're on Bluemoon or in the SS, you would have no idea who Pete was. It's only the last couple of years that I found out about him, and I've been going on/off for over 40 years.

Joy Division though, that sounds like it was his first match at the Etihad. When watching on telly you don't hear the refrain that we are 'tearing cockneys apart again'. It's great that the DJ plays it though !
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I knew of and spoke to Pete regularly back in the old ground as he used to stand near us in the Kippax. Didn't know anything about his background though until I read it on here.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
I knew of and spoke to Pete regularly back in the old ground as he used to stand near us in the Kippax. Didn't know anything about his background though until I read it on here.
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Did he wear all that gear back then? I guess he did as he had it on in 1987 when I travelled with him with the London supporters branch and we were at Maine Road then.
 
paulchapo said:
Did he wear all that gear back then? I guess he did as he had it on in 1987 when I travelled with him with the London supporters branch and we were at Maine Road then.
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He did. I remember him having some proper half-mast sky blue trousers and city socks. I also remember he had some badges on his scarf that were less than complimentary about our Trafford neighbours. Not sure if he still wears them.

He used to bring a transistor radio in with him and he was always listening out for the scores around the grounds. He'd be giving out the half time scores before they were announced over the tannoy.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
He did. I remember him having some proper half-mast sky blue trousers and city socks. I also remember he had some badges on his scarf that were less than complimentary about our Trafford neighbours. Not sure if he still wears them.

He used to bring a transistor radio in with him and he was always listening out for the scores around the grounds. He'd be giving out the half time scores before they were announced over the tannoy.
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I often wonder when he first started to wear all that gear and what prompted him. It was rather a brave move back in the hooligan days to be so noticeable.
 
Northerndave said:
To be fair, unless you're on Bluemoon or in the SS, you would have no idea who Pete was. It's only the last couple of years that I found out about him, and I've been going on/off for over 40 years.

Joy Division though, that sounds like it was his first match at the Etihad. When watching on telly you don't hear the refrain that we are 'tearing cockneys apart again'. It's great that the DJ plays it though !
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I met him years ago. I used to see him at most of the aways and on the train.
I’m sure most city fans have an idea who he is as he’s hardly inconspicuous is he.
Great part of our history and a real gem of a bloke.
 
paulchapo said:
Did he wear all that gear back then? I guess he did as he had it on in 1987 when I travelled with him with the London supporters branch and we were at Maine Road then.
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Very late 70''s.... most likely 79, my best mate and his brother went to Spurs away. Jim 20 and his brother 17 or 18.
Walking towards WHL and noticing Spurs fans coming the opposite way looking and pointing at them and they (in plain clothes) start shitting themselves. They decided once they reached the next corner they would leggit to the away end.
They reached the corner and went for it and once they realised no one was chasing them, they stopped and turned around and there was Pete turning the corner and walking towards them.
They always called him Mad Pete because he was clearly mad doing what he did!

In the mid 80's he'd travel on the Special - he was living in Accrington then. A few of us always had a chat with him. It was around 86 or 87 he said he was moving down south as he couldn't find work - pretty sure he said he was working at Heathrow
 
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